I go to a fair few fleet car events with manufacturers and leasing companies, and the latest buzz phrase ive picked up on is 'driverless car' - not in the truest sense of the words though, they just mean the new wave of driver aids; automatic lights, adaptive cruise control, automatic braking etc.

The manufacturers are investing huge sums of money and thousands of man-hours into all these things, but why can't they invent something useful, like a system that bluetooths a message to the car in front of you to say 'if 99.9% of the other cars on the motorway can see each other through a light mist, why the f*ck do you think you need your fog lights on?', or something that fires an electrical charge at tailgating drivers to disable their car, or instead of a lane departure system, give us steering that automatically drags hopeless twats out of the middle lane when no vehicles are detected in lane one?

To my mind, these would be much more helpful than rain sensing wipers, all of which seem to be responding to weather conditions on another continent, auto-dipping headlights that wait just long enough to piss off an oncoming driver before they switch from full beam, 'intelligent' cruise control that performs an emergency stop because someone in the next lane has slowed by a couple of mph, or lane departure systems that appear to be programmed to simulate torque steer.

The only purpose for all this guff is to stop people crashing while they go through the rigmarole of clicking, twisting and selecting a million options on a screen just to turn the fecking fan speed down a bit, because it automatically defaults to arctic blizzard setting every time you restart the bloody car.

I don't want to criticise progress, but modern cars are shit.

 

Can you imagine a world without tailgaters, lane hoggers, general bad driving & road rage antics? The driverless car has no chance on these shores.
I find that there are a host of things on our GTD that are particularly useless, which are supposed driver aids. Like the brake jerk feedback, if the car senses there's a possible impact less than a second away (using it's 12 degree beam angle from the radar sensor beneath the bumper). Perhaps the car thinks i'm farting about on Facebook instead of looking ahead.
It's what car driving has become - full of interruptions and stuff affecting concentration. Not to mention - there's just too many vehicles on the road.

 

I just want one of those police messaging boards so I can display the message "stop hogging the middle lane!" But alas it's never an option

 

I wish to hell our Qasi was self driving, its a f@#king cunting chore me having to do it.

I also wish all 4x4s and MPVs were driven by google instead of the current f@#kers.

 

Driver less cars are like whoreless brothels, why bother.

 

My CRV has the option to "turn on" my fog lights but the next time I start the car they are "OFF" again.
Brilliant Honda. Well done. Why don't ALL THE OTHER CARS do this?

S.

 

Because sometimes you just want to get your head down and have a kip. Because sometimes you just want to forget about the excitement that is rush hour motorway driving in the pouring rain.

I think driverless cars are a brilliant idea. More chance of one of those seeing me on my bike than a person.

 

The true driverless car will be a good thing for those people who just see cars as transport, but will that leave any room for people like us who like driving? Can the two co-exist on the road?

 

would you get in a car you had zero control over ? it will never happen in my lifetime for sure (not widely anyway) although I am fast approaching being a miserable old twat.

 

I would get one to work. Lets face it, we get in buses/tubes/trams

And cars driven by our missus's ahem